Graziano da Silva meets local officials and farmers to discuss the challenges they face

15 December 2014, Marrakech – FAO’s Director General José Graziano da Silva has visited a project aimed at boosting the production of olives and olive-oil in Morocco. During the visit he met local officials and farmers to discuss some of the challenges facing their agricultural sector.

Situated near Marrakech, the project has applied the approach developed by FAO in this region in 2005 to support the Rain-fed Rural Development Programme

Knowledge exchanges between nations of the global south can offer new solutions for development challenges - FAO Director-General

15 December 2014, Rome/Marrakesh - Horizontal cooperation between countries of the global South is increasingly important to meeting the sustainable development challenges of our time, said FAO Director-General José Graziano da Silva at the first International Conference on South-South Cooperation in Marrakesh, Morocco, this weekend.

"Many developing countries face similar challenges in food security and agricultural and rural development, and in many cases, the geographic, climatic,